[khellang]

> First is that MSBuild hard-codes references, so building a multi-targeted project with references to a multi-targeted NuGet package is a nightmare. From what I've read in the documentation, Paket (an alternative package manager) is supposed to be designed to help with this, but it was already enough of a struggle to introduce NuGet at my work, and NuGet is "built-in" to Visual Studio.

This has changed radically with Visual Studio 2017 and the newer MSBuild tooling. See https://github.com/khellang/Scrutor/blob/master/src/Scrutor/... for an example. It has three targets with both conditional and common package references.